From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mcarlson@broadcom.com
Cc: greg@kroah.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH net-2.6/stable] tg3: Restrict phy ioctl access
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:56:06 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110216.165606.193703255.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110217003947.GA11185@mcarlson.broadcom.com>
From: "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:39:47 -0800
> So the proper thing to do here is recall the patch, submit a new patch
> to net-2.6 with a CC: stabel@kernel.org in the signed-off-by section.
No.
I have not applied your patch yet, but when I do and I also get my
tree pulled next time into Linus's tree, you can ask stable to apply
it.
Because only at that point will it exist as a commit in Linus's tree.
Before that happens you cannot ask Greg to apply it to his tree.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-17 0:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-15 22:51 [PATCH net-2.6/stable] tg3: Restrict phy ioctl access Matt Carlson
2011-02-16 22:39 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2011-02-16 23:06 ` Matt Carlson
2011-02-16 23:11 ` David Miller
2011-02-16 23:52 ` Matt Carlson
2011-02-17 0:00 ` Greg KH
2011-02-17 0:11 ` Matt Carlson
2011-02-17 0:10 ` David Miller
2011-02-17 0:39 ` Matt Carlson
2011-02-17 0:56 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-02-17 22:11 ` David Miller
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